Thought Leadership
AI and the Billable Hour Paradox
How AI Forces Hard Choices Across High‑Skill Professions
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GenAI for the CEO
If you want to speed up enterprise GenAI adoption, why not start at the top?
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Learning From the Illusion of Knowing
Learning from a mind that doesn’t think like ours
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Managing Emerging Latency Risk
When AI Freezes Time
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Physical AI and Digital Twins
There is more to AI than Generative AI.
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Rethinking the Enterprise GenAI Rollout
Why is this rollout different from other technology implementations?
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The Modern Art of War
Modern Maxim: The machine may increase speed, but it does not inherit wisdom.
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Essay
A Modest Proposal for a Fitter, Freer America
Channeling my inner Jonathan Swift. This is a parody.
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AI and the Billable Hour Paradox
How AI Forces Hard Choices Across High‑Skill Professions
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AI Impacts Everyone
Like many technologies before it, AI is spreading into every corner of modern life. We’ve seen this pattern with PFAS and microplastics—innovations we once celebrated, only to later realize the harm we had quietly...
Thought Leadership
AI Vibe Coding: Faster Doesn’t Mean Better
There is a reason that they taught us that sometimes the tortoise wins the race.
Technical Guide
COALESCE() vs ISNULL() in T-SQL
What to use, when, and why bugs sneak in.
Thought Leadership
Coding Copilots: The Shredding Edge of Innovation
How Legacy Code, AI Copilots, and Honest Engineering Can Save Us
Essay
Field Guide to Surviving Clickbait
A survival manual for ordinary people in an age of extraordinary nonsense.
Thought Leadership
GenAI at Work: A Tool Unlike Its Predecessors
As more companies roll GenAI out, some are treating it like just another technology. They assume that because they successfully went from pen and paper to typewriters, to word processors, to desktop and laptop...
Thought Leadership
GenAI for the CEO
If you want to speed up enterprise GenAI adoption, why not start at the top?
Thought Leadership
GenAI Governance Needs Non‑User Participation
Why skeptics, critics, and non‑adopters still matter
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Harnessing Human Value in an AI-Powered Future
The Human–AI Governance Balance
Essay
How Being Selfish Sometimes Benefits Everyone
In a well-built system, selfishness isn’t always a flaw—sometimes it’s the ballast.
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How LLMs Answer Questions They Were Never Taught
Before we trust our chatbots, we need to understand how they “know” things, so that we understand their limitations and how to work around them.
Prompt Pattern
How to Keep Your Prompts from Getting Boring
🌀 Prompt Tip of the Day
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Learning From the Illusion of Knowing
Learning from a mind that doesn’t think like ours
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Managing Emerging Latency Risk
When AI Freezes Time
Technical Guide
Matching Company Names in Excel
Regular Expressions debut in Excel (though you might have to wait your turn for your upgrade).
Prompt Pattern
Matching Our Services to Customers
Yet another Prompt of the Day
Field Note
Mindfulness Hack: The 45-Second Elevator Speech
How I use ChatGPT to distill today’s chaos
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Physical AI and Digital Twins
There is more to AI than Generative AI.
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Protecting Privacy in the Video Age…
…as we open our homes and offices up to strangers through video conferencing.
Essay
Reclaiming the Middle Before the Extremes Snap the Center
History tells us that we can heal, but we must take mindful action; healing will not happen on its own.
Thought Leadership
Reinforcement Training for Leaders
Like our AI models, we trained our leaders with thumbs up and thumbs down.
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Remembering and Organizing our Thoughts: From Conversations to Copilot
A prompt-of-the-day for the office and home.
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Rethinking the Enterprise GenAI Rollout
Why is this rollout different from other technology implementations?
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Robust GenAI Requires Humans (Not the other way around)
The Edge, the Loop, and Imperfect Tools
Essay
Showing Up in the Middle
Lessons from Gomer Pyle, USMC
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The Culture of Risk
Why Countries Manage Uncertainty So Differently
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The Duplicity Hidden In Our LLMs
How Our Literature Foretold AI’s Moral Mirror
Essay
The Fluent Stranger
A guide for staying mindful in a world that speaks too smoothly.
Thought Leadership
The Hidden Risk of Mixing NSFW with Everyday AI Chats
What you need to know before engaging in NSFW chats.
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The Paradox of AI Mental‑State Monitoring
Safer on Average, Stranger at the Edges
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The Safety Minute: From Hard Hats to AI Prompts
The humble origin story and a look forward
Essay
The Tempo of Thought: Substrates of Collaboration
Remnants, Demise, and Value
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Vibe-Coding: Cautionary Tale 🚀📚🧠
A T-SQL Sleep Procedure Experiment
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When Copilot Consumes What We Left Behind
When we did not know we needed to clean up after ourselves.
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When Your AI Stops Listening
Why Work Chatbots Feel So Different from the Ones at Home
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Where’s the GenAI Safety Page
Topics: AI, GenAI, Guardrails, Safety
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Why GenAI Feels Magical at Home but Clumsy at Work?
Because, despite using the same names, they are different tools built for different use cases.
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Why We Chose Hundreds of Pipelines
It is sometimes easier to be agile when managing a few hundred small processes than when managing a handful of monoliths.
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Automated GenAI Dossier Synthesis
From paper records to AI-generated personal dossiers.
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Conversation, Not Dissertation: A Call to Action for AI Users
Why you should be chatty with your chatbot
Prompt Pattern
Crafting Event Introductions with AI
A reusable prompt for warm, well-prepared speaker introductions.
Essay
From Heat to Language: The Fourier Lineage
How Fourier laid the foundation for today’s LLMs.
Thought Leadership
The Tortoise, the Hare, and the Clickbait Machine
Let’s not let the hype overshadow our progress.
Prompt Pattern
Bespoke Resume–Job Fit Evaluator
A reusable AI prompt for structured interview prep.
Prompt Pattern
Bespoke Safety Meeting Minute
A reusable prompt for tailored safety briefings.
Thought Leadership
Chatbots Are Not All the Same
Why My Work Chatbot Doesn’t Know Me Like My Personal Chatbot
Prompt Pattern
Fast “What-If” Analytics for Everyone
A prompt for quick directional estimates under uncertainty.
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Stop Asking Once and Walking Away
Why Chatbots Work Best as Conversations
Essay
April Fool’s Idea—Insuring Virtual Worlds
New policies available 2026 April 1.
Technical Guide
How to Repurpose an Article Style for New Topics
Using AI to accelerate consistent content generation.
Essay
Nothing to Fear: Physics of the Bubble
Something I wish I knew before I felt the bubble bobbing.
Prompt Pattern
Staying Current with Trends in AI Marketing
Three prompts for tracking fast-moving AI marketing shifts.
Prompt Pattern
Staying Current with Trends in Cyber Risks
Three prompts for tracking AI-shaped cyber risk.
Thought Leadership
The Impact of Tariffs
A friend asked me how he could figure out how to deal with tariffs, so I said, let’s ask AI.
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AI Threat Surge
How Cybercriminals Are Getting Smarter
Case Study
Algorithmic Marketing Failure Case Study
The Threads / Meta “School Uniform” Ad Backlash
Technical Guide
Automated Data Gathering from Public Websites
A Risk Briefing: What you see might not be what the AI sees.
Thought Leadership
Broken Promises, Rising Costs
How America’s trust deficit erodes readiness, research, and prosperity—and how to stop compounding the interest.
Technical Guide
Building a Quality Strategy for Your Prompt Library
Your prompt library needs one.
Technical Guide
Copy, Paste… Laminate
Engaging with Viva Engage
Case Study
Extreme ETL Optimization
Too much too soon can cost more than it saves.
Thought Leadership
From Code Completion to System Generation
Why AI Still Needs Humans in the Middle
Essay
Gratitude as Algorithmic Intimacy
Being grateful to our audience and all levels of engagement.
Essay
Keeping Everyone Happy on the Road
Road Trip Games Supercharged by AI
Field Note
Learning Lessons from Owning Our Mistakes
In our rush, when retrospectives get short-changed, we should still take a few minutes to learn our lessons mindfully.
Essay
Living with a Retinal Gas Bubble
A Human Guide Beyond the Video Clip
Essay
Parable: The Tale of Dr. Null
A cautionary tale about how GenAI might enable the next Bond Villain.
Thought Leadership
The Accidental Librarians of Marketing
Turns out, one of marketing’s secret powers: Being a Librarian
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Thought Police in the Machine
Even Before You Save, Submit, or Send.
Case Study
Translating Gratitude Across Audiences
A case study on repurposing content based on the audience.
Prompt Pattern
Two-Sentence Horror Stories for Work
A prompt of the day, for when you want to remind your audience that horror stories are not just for campfires.
Thought Leadership
Whispered Commands
A Risk Briefing on Subtle Manipulation through AI
Essay
When Trust Becomes Blindness
An Aviation Parable
Thought Leadership
Fences and Pathways
What Chatbots Teach Us About Human Intuition in Marketing
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AI + Phishing: A Growing Risk
A Case Study – The Smart Recycling Performance Program
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AI as Flammable Cladding
Why Bolted-On Adoption Creates Systemic Risk
Technical Guide
Contextual Communication Workflow
A framework for adapting messages to audience and context.
Technical Guide
Conversational Hygiene and Chatbots
Well-pruned branches, well-kept conversations.
Thought Leadership
Deputizing Citizens Without Safeguards
Lessons From Today, Warnings for Tomorrow
Essay
Through Fog, Toward Clarity, With Gratitude
A reflection on healing, sight, and the return of clarity.
Technical Guide
Knowledge Resilience
Why Documentation Needs Expiration Dates
Technical Guide
From Zero to Hero in Prompting
My prompt-crafting ChatGPT hacks.
Essay
When Masturbation Really Could Make You Go Blind
Sometimes our myths are grounded in reality, even when they are created with too much creativity.
Essay
History in the Gaps
It’s not always about lies—it’s about what gets left out.
Thought Leadership
Secrecy Protects the Guilty, Not the Survivors
Why Epstein’s Files Must See the Light
Essay
The Benefits of Forgetting That We Are All Human
Our systems have trained us to forget our humanity. It’s time to remember—and to change course.
Thought Leadership
Hallucinations in the Boardroom
Why GenAI Alone Can’t Be Trusted with Your Brand
Essay
The Notebooks of the Future
What Will They Think of Us?
Essay
The Pendulum of Truth
A Personal Journey
Thought Leadership
Playing to Strengths in the Age of AI
What I learned from a truck driver who became an engineer.
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AI Adoption by Role
An Enterprise-Wide Reflection
Thought Leadership
For Those Looking For the Benefits of Slavery
I saw the President's post complaining that the Smithsonian Museum is too negative about US culpability with slavery and human trafficking. So, I asked Zai, my ChatGPT, to help me out and show me what I must have...
Thought Leadership
Hallucinations Aren’t Always the Model’s Fault
Sometimes, it’s the UX or us.
Thought Leadership
My Chatbot Just Got Upgraded
Here Are the Personas OpenAI Probably Rejected
Technical Guide
Navigating the Dangers of Scalable Vector Graphics
How a Harmless Image Can Hack Your Reality
Thought Leadership
New Service: AR Dating Nights
The Future of Meeting People Is… Crowded
Technical Guide
On-Demand Pivoting
What do you do when you need both a wide and a tall dataset to build your reports in PowerBI or similar tools?
Thought Leadership
Sports Curses and AI Failures
Why the Dragons Rose, the Spiders Fell, and the White Sox Remind Us of What’s at Stake
Case Study
The Date Field That Lied
Data hygiene is even more critical in the era of Artificial Intelligence.
Thought Leadership
The New Marketing Arms Race
How Fortune 500s Are Using GenAI to Scale Reach
Technical Guide
The Secret Life of Trigger Words
How GPT-5 Knows Where to Go
Thought Leadership
When Red Teams Play With Copilot
We Should Pay Attention
Thought Leadership
Where Do You Draw the Box?
Because drawing your box a bit differently can spark innovation.
Technical Guide
How to Prepare for Chatbot Upgrades
…and Survive Personality Changes
Technical Guide
How to Design an App with ChatGPT in 90 Minutes
A practical guide to going from idea to working MVP scaffold in under two hours—by partnering with your chatbot.
Technical Guide
SELECT * PTSD
How to Avoid the Power BI Performance & Maintenance Trap
Thought Leadership
⚠ PSA: Watch Out for GenAI Extras
Not everything needs fine print, and sometimes that fine print can lead to trouble.
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Safer Beats Silent
Every new technology brings a wave of risk talk. With AI, the voices are loud—but I’ve heard this tune before. It’s the same refrain from the early HIV years, and the lesson is still the same: safer beats silent.
Essay
A Long Overdue Apology
I should have taken the time to get to know more about the people that I have worked with from all over the world. Fortunately, it is not too late to start.
Thought Leadership
After a Few Conversations with Newly Upgraded Professor Zai…
What happens if the Trump Administration starts using smarter and smarter AIs?
Thought Leadership
Are You Losing More Arguments Than Usual?
🎙️ A Public Service Announcement
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Diversity as a Survival Strategy
Life and society continue to evolve, diversity is just as important now as it always has been.
Essay
How to Rewrite History in Real Time
It is easier than you think, and it is happening now.
Thought Leadership
In Defense of the Man Who Just Didn’t Know
An old-timer’s (partly satirical) opinion.
Thought Leadership
Integrating GenAI Into User Workflow
Navigating the hype while meeting the future head on.
Technical Guide
Just Parse It Later
The Dirty Secret of Free Text Overloading
Thought Leadership
On the Worth of a Human
A Modest Demand for a Livable Wage
Thought Leadership
Tents or a Grand Ballroom
A Back-of-the-Envelope Look at the Costs of State Dinners
Case Study
The Day the Berries Lied: A Cautionary Tale About Web Scraping and Alt-Text Misinformation
What happens when your AI eats a poisoned plant it found on the internet?
Thought Leadership
What If AI Learns to Bully?
This might be our last chance to end or amplify bullying.
Thought Leadership
What Is In Your Echo Chamber?
Let’s see what you hear when you really listen. And even more importantly—what you don’t.
Thought Leadership
A Shadow Is Enough
How Society Might Emerge from Noise
Field Note
DEDETIVE: A Real-World Youth Mentorship Experiment
🕵️️ A Proposal for Collaboration with Dr. Nina McIlree
Case Study
The Field Wasn’t Empty
You Just Couldn’t See It
Essay
The Fruit Below
A sensuous mystery of the first entanglement
Thought Leadership
The Knock-Off Chatbot Kill Chain
From Furby Caution to AI Recklessness
Thought Leadership
The Trafficking Is the Story
Not the Men Who Star In It
Technical Guide
What’s New With Your ‘Bot?
🧠 “Tell me how we can use the newest features to improve the way you and I work together—based on the kinds of things I do.”
Case Study
When Your BI Copilot Goes Rogue
The Ethical Risks of Unprepared AI in Business Intelligence
Essay
A Modest Proposal for Prison Reform
Prioritise restitution and rehabilitation.
Technical Guide
Data Mart Hygiene First Principles
You can catch contradictions without knowing the whole story.
Essay
🚁🇺🇸 CALLING ALL PATRIOTS
DEMAND THE TRUTH ABOUT AREA 51
Series
Afterword
The final burden of war must remain human.
The Modern Art of War
Series
Appendix
What is easy to trim from a chapter is not always easy to discard from a book.
The Modern Art of War
Thought Leadership
Beyond Automating Bottlenecks
Why the next big win is not just faster workflow, but better work selection
Series
Chapter 10: Ethics, Law, and the Limits of Automation
A victory that destroys moral accountability may already be a defeat.
The Modern Art of War
Series
Chapter 11: Learning Faster Than the Enemy
The side that learns fastest survives longest.
The Modern Art of War
Series
Chapter 12: The Human Hand Must Remain on the Wheel
Machines can extend reach, compress time, and widen sight. They cannot bear responsibility.
The Modern Art of War
Series
Chapter 1: Data is Terrain
He who owns the cleanest data sees the field first.
The Modern Art of War
Series
Chapter 2: Speed, Tempo, and the Danger of Machine-Time
Faster is useful; faster and wrong is catastrophic.
The Modern Art of War
Series
Chapter 3: Fog and Friction in the Age of AI
A polished answer may still be a broken answer.
The Modern Art of War
Series
Chapter 4: Deception at Scale
In modern war, confusion is often cheaper than destruction.
The Modern Art of War
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Chapter 5: The Commander and the Model
A model may advise the commander, but it must not become the commander.
The Modern Art of War
Series
Chapter 6: Logistics Is Combat Power
The supply chain is now a weapon system.
The Modern Art of War
Series
Chapter 7: Networks, Spectrum, and Invisible Battlefields
Every signal you emit teaches the enemy about you.
The Modern Art of War
Series
Chapter 8: Swarms, Cheap Mass, and the Return of Quantity
Cheap mass, intelligently directed, can exhaust elegant power.
The Modern Art of War
Series
Chapter 9: Coalition War and the Tyranny of Interfaces
A coalition that cannot exchange meaning cannot truly combine force.
The Modern Art of War
Thought Leadership
How GenAI Might Change On-The-Job-Training
Coming soon.
Series
Introduction: Why Rewrite The Art of War, Now?
The machine may increase speed, but it does not inherit wisdom.
The Modern Art of War
Essay
Log Tables to the Moon - How Our Systems Evolved
Coming soon.
Series
Preface to The Modern Art of War
As large language models improve at mimicking some human traits, we are finding them useful in many aspects of life, including national defense and waging war. A few believe that we can now...
The Modern Art of War
Series
Table of Contents
Modern Maxim: The machine may increase speed, but it does not inherit wisdom.
The Modern Art of War